Song to get you through the week: 'Hunter,' by The Furies

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Aug 7, 2014 at 1:35 PMAug 7, 2014 at 1:39 PM

“Fate has found a way to/ Dig this hole again,” sings Boston-area singer-songwriter Lee Moretti, on The Furies' new single, “Hunter.” “Pushing daisies up/ from where this love began.” Then, there's a moment where the key changes, and her voice rises to meet the next two lines of the verse: “Afraid you will lose, save your excuse/I will hunt you, if I have to.”

“Hunter” is a fascinating song, straddling the line between being something romantic and being something unsettlingly predatory. Instrumentally, there's a sense of constraint throughout the song, a sense of waves crashing against the yearning vocals, echoing the contrast between the persona's resolute yearning and the object of her affection's intransigence.

“You wanna save your angel hour,” sings Moretti, in the chorus, “But wait for something higher/ I thought you would know,/ you would know…”

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Every inch of this song simmers with longing and heat, and the music rises throughout like steam, wrapping itself around the contours of emotion. The song escalates in both intensity and desperation until everything's at a fever-pitch, erupting to a rocked-out instrumental bridge that burns off some of the heat, but in no way extinguishes it. There's still an ember burning at the song's end. It's a beautiful, sexy and wholly immersive song, one that's devoid of sentimentality and that captures this all-consuming sort of heartbreak with frightening alacrity. (Victor D. Infante)

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